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Merrillville resident Ed Sperka is familiar with the signs at this point. Sperka has heart failure and cardiopulmonary disease, so his legs swell up, his weight goes up and soon he's back in the hospital for an angiogram and further treatment. But now, rather than simply recognizing the signs, Sperka and other heart failure patients can sit on a pillow each morning and a device implanted in their pulmonary artery measures the pressure in the artery. The information is relayed to a secure website where nurse practitioner Kathy Gjeldum checks the number and looks for any warning trends. "We get real-time data on pulmonary pressure," Gjeldum said. "So we know...

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Merrillville resident Ed Sperka is familiar with the signs at this point. Sperka has heart failure and cardiopulmonary disease, so his legs swell up, his weight goes up and soon he's back in the hospital for an angiogram and further treatment.
But now,...

A dog owner has filed a lawsuit against a pet food company alleging that thousands of dogs have been sickened or died from eating the company's dry dog food. Pet owner Frank Lucido filed the suit on Feb. 5, in U.S. District Court in the Northern...

A Chicago-area woman has settled a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission over a smartphone application she developed to detect whether a mole is likely to be cancerous.
The FTC said Monday that the Mole Detective app's claims that it could...

Kraft Foods says it will start sweetening its Capri Sun drinks with sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup.
The company says the change will apply to its original Capri Sun drinks, and that the number of calories will go down to 50 per pack, from 60....

When you grow up, your heart dies.
I know this because Ally Sheedy told me so. She said we all become our parents, there is no avoiding it. Also, if I ever do decide to run away from home, I don't have to live on the streets; I could go to...

In 2007, Naperville resident Gerry Glab was having trouble just taking a shower, due to his worsening congestive heart failure.
"When I would have an attack, I'd feel like I was drowning," he says.
And, the episodes were becoming more...

Highland Park has joined other municipalities that ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and limit the use of e-cigarettes to places where cigarettes can be smoked.
On Feb. 9, the Highland Park City Council amended its ordinance to include...

Bob Berens, a television writer in Los Angeles, first noticed back in July that it was getting hard to find the Nicorette lozenges he'd been consuming religiously ever since he quit smoking seven years ago. Neighborhood stores were tapped out. Soon, he...

Holly Linneweh knew something wasn't quite right. The 64-year-old Carol Stream resident had a "weird chest feeling" and went to the ER to get it checked out. It was October 2009 and she was experiencing her first episode of atrial fibrillation...

A recently completed National Institutes of Health-funded trial confirms the efficacy of blood flow measurement technology from River Forest-based VasSol Inc. (http://www.vassolinc.com) to predict the possibility of repeated stroke in at-risk...

Does your sweetheart have a milk allergy? You may want to hold off on a dark chocolate Valentine.
Although dark chocolate generally isn't made with milk, a new Food and Drug Administration study released Wednesday shows that there are traces of milk in...

Don't expect to see them too soon, but two types of apples genetically modified to resist turning brown after they're bruised or sliced could someday be coming to your local grocery store.
The development could boost sales of apples for...

Hundreds of products are being pulled from store shelves after traces of peanut were found in cumin spice — a life-threatening danger to some people with peanut allergies. The recall has been ongoing since December, as more retailers identify products...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has a modest proposal for pharmaceutical companies that get U.S. Food and Drug Administration fines for violations: a sort of “swear jar” that will require them to give money to the National Institutes of Health every...

Britain moved Tuesday toward allowing scientists to create humans from the DNA of three people.
The technology aims to liberate future generations from inherited diseases, but critics say it crosses a fundamental scientific boundary and could lead to...

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California health officials Wednesday declared electronic cigarettes a health threat that should be strictly regulated like tobacco products, joining other states and health advocates across the U.S. in seeking tighter controls as "vaping" grows...

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Regulators say companies must now submit new testing data on battery...

Robertsdale resident Ed Zawadzki worked as a machinist for 38 years — “pretty strenuous work” — but living with peripheral-artery disease made it extremely painful to even walk from his house to the garage. An estimated 13 million Americans suffer from...